Astronomy / Space First ever attempt for mining resources in Space in History of Mankind Goes BOOM!!!

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First step toward asteroid mining: Planetary Resources set to launch test satellite
Oct 16, 2014, 11:40am PDT

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Steve Wilhelm
Staff Writer- Puget Sound Business Journal
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Planetary Resources is set to launch its first satellite Oct. 24, a significant step in the Redmond company's ambitious goal of mining precious metals and water from asteroids.

The first satellite Akryd 3 satellite won't do any of that, however.

It won't carry mining equipment or even a camera. At just 14 inches long and 4 inches wide, its purpose is to test the company's software systems, computer, and its rocket motor.

The launch date was announced by Chris Voorhees, Planetary's vice president of space development, at a Seattle conference last week on defense, space and security.

It is several months behind the July launch date mentioned last year by Planetary Resources President Chris Lewicki.

Voorhees said the first satellite will go up on Orbital Sciences Antares launch vehicle, scheduled to bring supplies to the International Space Station. The small Planetary satellite will be a secondary payload on that flight.

Voorhees said Planetary's goal, to extract minerals and water from asteroids, can be a critical part of future space exploration.

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[Silent Run]

This is it people!
First ever attempt at mining tech from space and asteroids and it went POOF!!
It will largely pass unoticed in all this crazyness we been fed in the news nowadays but this is trully a VERY SAD day for space exploration.

Project satelite technology will be definatelly postponed for ever.

This is the REAL thing right here!
Not some pixels in a video game.
Space Miners unite!!!

 

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This is it people!
First ever attempt at mining tech from space and asteroids and it went POOF!!
It will largely pass unoticed in all this crazyness we been fed in the news nowadays but this is trully a VERY SAD day for space exploration.

Project satelite technology will be definatelly postponed for ever.

This is the REAL thing right here!
Not some pixels in a video game.
Space Miners unite!!!

Meh. NASA has performed experiments on the EM drive and measured a force. So we might soon have engines working on pure electricity.